Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-08-04

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English assistance unless they come to
terms
The session of the circuit court of the
State OF Kentucky. during which the
Tollvers and their associates who have
carried on wholesale murders in Rowan
county are TO be tried, met Tuesday.
The Judge fearing further trouble asked
State protection and two infantry compa-
MES with a battery of Gattling guns have
been sent him. The village presents a
military appearance. Every store is
closed and the streets are paraded by
armed patrols of the Law and Order
League. Excitement is intense and all
expect another "war Of determination"
should the prisoners be pronounced guilty.
It seems that President Cleveland's plan
to give Indiana considerable of his
presence on his Western trip is not very
unwise The feeling against the admin
istration has continually grown, and not
only have the leading party papers taken
q stand against the President but also the
chairman of the democratic State conven-
tion, Mr.. James II. Rice. The cause for
the dissatisfaction lies in the fact that
the federal offices given to men from that
State have been those of insigniicance and
by which only a very limited patronage
has been afforded In short the democrats
of that State have not been given their
share of the spoils
The tobacco crop is the centre of the
only speculative movement now in pro-
gress and the advance in prices, which is
considerable in the West and very little in
the East. turns on reduction in acreage.
For ten years past the tobacco farmer has
been suffering steady reduction in profits,
and the very large increase of Sumatra
tobacco importations, in spite of the heavy
duty imposed in 1888, has added to the
effect produced by the general fall in
price. The Connecticut Valley has seen a
heavy loss in acreage and so has Kentucky,
but whether the total reduction is two
thirds, rs Western dealers say. or less
than fourth, as the Agricultural Depart.
ment insists, does not appear likely to be
known for some time yet.
A month or so ago Dr. w. I. Northrup
of Haverhill. Ohio, was killed by Thomas
Mccoy. DIR. Northrup was a staunch pro-
hibitionist and worked zealously in behalf
of temperance reform. Mccoy was a
saloon keeper and interested in the manu-
facture as well as sale of liquors. DR..
Northrup came 20 Han erhill about five
town politics which Mccoy had previous
" run. This interference gave rise to
enmity on the part of the McCoys and re-
suited in the murder of Northrup. The
jury before which McCoy and a brother
who was also implicated, were tried has
returned verdict of guilty of murder in
the second degree against the principal.
No verdict was given tor his associate.
The Norristown Herald has grown sus-
picious of the Presidents literary ability
and expresses its incredulty in the follow
ing language: Those who have watched
President Clevelsnd's career may have
observed the strange lack of uniformity in
his literary style. Prior to taking his seat
his writings had not promised much for a
President and brother of the gifted Rose.
The letter to Mrs. Beecher will be remem
bered as laughable in conception and
wretched in execution. On assuming the
Presidential chair. however. his style rose
to the position and continued so for some
time, deteriorating somewhat in pension
vetoes. however. perhaps because they
were too unimportant to waste good writ
ing upon. Recently. however, the retro
gression has been marked, and his letter
declining the invitation to the reunion al
Gettysburg was very, very bad. Now the
question is, has the President two styles
Mr. Jekyll style and DR.. Hyde style,
or does he (perish the thou pht) sometimes